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HANSARDNational Security and Investment Bill02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillI put my name to this amendment, but somehow along the way I was left off the speakers’ list, so I am glad to have scraped back on again. My noble friend Lady McIntosh made the…02 Mar 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillOkay, that is fine. We need to go away and put my noble friend Lord Lansley in the blue corner and the Law Society in the red corner and see how we get on. In the mean- time, I…02 Mar 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, this is the first time I have spoken in Committee, so I draw the Committee’s attention to my entry in the register. I will speak to my two amendments in this group.…22 Feb 2021HANSARDNational Security and Investment BillMy Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Lord, Lord Woodley, on his distinguished if somewhat combative maiden speech. I congratulate the Government on bringing forward the…04 Feb 2021HANSARDBribery Act 2010: Post-legislative Scrutiny (Select Committee Report)My Lords, I too was a member of this committee and I enjoyed serving under the chairmanship of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Saville of Newdigate. Like my noble friend Lord…03 Feb 2021HANSARDFinancial Services BillMy Lords, I am afraid the wonders of modern technology are such that I am confined to a landline today, but that has not prevented me hearing two distinguished maiden speeches…28 Jan 2021HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillI am grateful for that. We have vigilance, not legislation, as regards forum shopping, and that was certainly an issue that bedevilled our record, and the records of other…10 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, I thank all those who have taken part in this short debate and, in particular, I thank my noble friend for her very helpful reply. Just to deal with a point raised by…10 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, with this last group, the horse is heading for the stable. If I talk for too long, I shall probably be talking to myself alone. I shall therefore cut to the chase but…10 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill10 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, in moving Amendment 57, I will also speak to Amendment 74. These two probing amendments are designed to explore how the Government plan to use their regulatory powers in…10 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill10 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillI am grateful to all who have participated in this short debate and to my noble and learned friend for his answer. I thought that my first question would be a ball of easy length…10 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillMy Lords, I have Amendment 45 in this group, which is slipstreaming along behind Amendment 44 tabled in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Rosser, Lord Kennedy of Southwark and…03 Dec 2020HANSARDCovert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) BillWe have had three distinguished maiden speeches this afternoon. First, I welcome my noble friend Lord McLoughlin. The Cardinal Griffin School in Cannock has had a lot of airtime…11 Nov 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy Lords, I support this amendment, as the House would expect, but before I get there, the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, threw down a challenge and I had better get to that first. I…30 Sept 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy Lords, I was very sorry not to be able to be here for the debates in Committee on these amendments, to which I put my name. I had an unavoidable business commitment elsewhere.…30 Sept 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy Lords, one of the weaknesses of the whole Bill is the extent to which the detailed implications are contained in regulations which are only now beginning to emerge. Every…30 Sept 2020HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) BillMy Lords, I have put my name to Amendment 1, which represents an important piece in the jigsaw of our new immigration system. We have just heard two very hard-hitting and detailed…30 Sept 2020